Miriam Lord

Miriam is an expert copyright attorney and one of four legal advisors to the Register of Copyrights. Her primary focus is delivering on the U S. Copyright Office's strategic goal of Copyright for All: Making the copyright system as understandable and accessible to as many members of the public as possible. She oversees the Office of Public Information and Education, which provides authoritative information about copyright law to the public, implements the Office’s communications plan, publishes comprehensive written and audiovisual materials, develops education and outreach programs, and responds to public inquiries about Office policies and practices.

Before joining the Office, she was the director of the Global Intellectual Property Academy at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, providing domestic and international intellectual property capacity-building, technical assistance, and education policy and programs. She has also served as co-lead of the U.S. Department of Commerce Equity Council’s Gender Committee. Previously, she was the director of the Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and the founding administrator of a state-wide patent pro bono program, both of which provide under-resourced inventors, artists, startups, and creative nonprofits with legal assistance.

She holds a JD from Villanova University School of Law and an undergraduate degree in the design field from Colorado State University.